User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- A Letter from Bill Putnam Jr.
- Introducing Apollo Solo USB
- Getting Started
- Hardware Controls & Connectors
- Apollo Solo USB System Overview
- Working With Apollo Solo USB
- Essential Apollo Solo USB Concepts
- Setting the DAW to use Apollo Solo USB I/O
- Accessing Apollo Solo USB’s I/O in the DAW
- Input Monitoring with the DAW
- Using Console with the DAW
- UAD Plug-Ins: Console versus DAW
- Virtual I/O
- Using Apollo Solo USB for System Sound I/O
- Using Apollo Solo USB Without Audio Software
- Console Overview
- What is Console?
- Console Functions
- Global Functions
- When To Use Console
- Interactions Between Console and Apollo Solo USB
- Accessing Console
- Console Layout
- Global Window Elements
- Meter Bridge Overview
- Info Bar Overview
- Current Bank Overview
- View Column Overview
- Monitor Column Overview
- Channel Strips Overview
- Console Plug-In Inserts Overview
- Insert Effects Overview
- Popover Windows
- HP Cue Overview
- Sends Overview
- Console Sessions Overview
- Console Settings Overview
- Multiple Undo/Redo
- Keyboard Focus & Control
- Adjusting Console Controls
- Controls Shortcuts
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Console Reference
- Console Plug-In Inserts
- Insert Types
- Inserts Signal Flow
- Inserting UAD Plug-Ins
- Removing UAD Plug-Ins
- Editing UAD Plug-Ins
- Insert Assign Popover
- Inserts Display
- Insert State Indicators
- Insert Hover Options
- Insert Options Menu
- Channel Insert Effects
- Plug-In Editor Window
- Channel Strips
- Presets Manager
- Presets Manager Popover
- Save Preset Popover
- Console Settings
- Unison
- Console Recall Plug-In
- UAD Meter & Control Panel
- Using UAD Plug-Ins
- Tempo Sync
- UA Account & Store
- Latency & Apollo Solo USB
- Device Drivers
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Specifications
- Hardware Block Diagram
- Universal Audio History
- Notices
- Technical Support
Apollo Solo USB Manual Apollo Solo USB System Overview 35
Realtime UAD Processing
Apollo Solo USB can process UAD Powered Plug-Ins with sub-2ms latency, delivering
the ultimate sonic experience while monitoring and/or tracking your performance. This
feature is named Realtime UAD Processing.
Realtime UAD Processing is a special function that is only available within Console. This
function is completely independent of the DAW’s I/O hardware buffer size setting, so
even when the I/O buffer setting is high — where any plug-ins in a DAW have noticeable
latency — UAD plug-in latency is still indiscernible.
With Realtime UAD Processing, up to five UAD plug-ins can be stacked in series without
any increase in latency, for flexible and complex signal processing chains. Realtime UAD
Processing is automatically active with every UAD plug-in that’s inserted in Console. To
learn more, see Console Plug-In Inserts.
Unison Technology
Unison
™
is an exclusive analog/digital integration system built into Apollo Solo USB’s
microphone preamplifiers. Unison is an audio processing breakthrough that starts right
at the source, the input stage, allowing Apollo Solo USB’s mic preamps to sound and
behave like the world’s most sought-after tube and solid state preamps, guitar amps,
and pedals — including their all-important impedance, gain stage “sweet spots,” and
component-level circuit behaviors.
Unison is activated when a UAD Unison plug-in is loaded in Console’s dedicated Unison
insert slot. To learn more, see Unison.
Console Recall Plug-In
Console Recall is a special DAW plug-in supplied in VST and AAX 64 formats. Console
Recall offers additional convenience when using Apollo Solo USB and/or the Console
application in conjunction with a DAW.
The Console Recall plug-in does not process audio. Instead, the primary function of
Console Recall is to store complete Console configurations within the DAW project file. It
also provides access to key Console functions (monitor volume, mono, and mute) without
leaving the DAW. To learn more, see Console Recall Plug-In.
Console Recall plug-in